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Not at all...

"Don't you usually write software for the hardware and not invent new hardware for the software?"

Not really. If you look at DOS/Windows over the last couple of decades MS has always tried to target where the hardware will be in two - three years as that is the dev time for a new version of Windows. In other words it makes no sense to write an OS for today's hardware, instead they try to target where the hardware will be when the software is released.

In the past it was a cozy relationship between Intel and MS (wintell) and they could "plan" their respective road maps with little concern about what the competition was doing. With AMD putting pressure on Intel, and Linux pushing MS, both have had to scrap existing plans (Intel killed several P4 CPUs and MS is cutting back Longhorn features.) and deal with the real world of competition.

And don't forget IBM's CPUs. As I said, IBM is supplying the CPUs for the Xbox. In fact, it's a triple core 1+ Ghz. CPU. What has this to do with PCs you ask? Simple, the game developers must have a development platform to build the games on. Current Xbox games are built on Pentium PCs so it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see IBM toss their hat back in the "PC" ring in the very near future. Don't forget, IBM probably knows more about hardware platforms than anyone else and they are primarily a hardware company.

It will certainly interesting to see how that plays with Apple. Wouldn't be interesting to have a PC that can run Linux, Windows Longhorn, BSD, UNIX or Mac OSX? Or even all of them with something like VMWare???

Posted by: No_Ax_to_Grind   Posted on: 06/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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